William Holden

Bert Winzer, the son of florists, graduated from Emmaus High School in 1940 and made twine at an Allentown jute mill until the Army drafted him during World War II.

He volunteered for an elite commando unit of Americans and Canadians called the 1st Special Service Force, forerunner of today's special forces.

After a mission to Kiska in the Aleutians to oust the Japanese, who had fled the island just before the force's arrival, the commandos landed in southern Italy. They made a celebrated cliff-side assault on German troops holding a mountaintop, then attacked a series of smaller peaks.

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